Simone Deparis, an EPFL senior scientist and teacher in the mathematics section, has been awarded the 2018 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching. He introduced a flipped classroom approach in his first-year linear algebra class this past year, which proved highly popular with students. When it came time to pick a career, Simone Deparis didn't hesitate for a second. He had known he wanted to be a math teacher ever since he was a teenager. Today a senior scientist and linear algebra professor at EPFL, he enjoys everything about math - its beauty, its contradictions and especially its complexity. "In this field you have to be tenacious, because you'll inevitably come across times when you're frustrated. You have to hang in there so you can eventually savor the victories," says Professor Deparis.
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